studio notes: the semester that just won't quit.

for whatever reason, this semester just won't give up. writing on a sunny cloudless mother's day morning, we still have one more week of classes and another one of finals, not wrapping up until may 23. spring break that was a mere three weeks ago feels like it was months in the past. i guess being on the cusp of beginning the final year, knowing the next 12 months will breeze right by, yet the last four seemed to have slowly slinked by, has led me to a very strange way of feeling time. cue steve miller band time keeps on slipping.

over the past few days excitement mixed with anxiety has crept into the recesses of my mind and the minds of my colleagues. grad school, maybe its just this program, has a way of imposing a segmented, compartmentalized view of charting and discussing artwork. case in point: second year solo show completed and partially critiqued in 2010; midterm crit march 2011, "i'd like to talk more about my work for the show this past december, i have some lingering thoughts and questions." "no, this is a mid term crit, we should discuss the work you have now." this pressure, wherever it is coming from, externally or more likely, from some insecure, constantly doubting internal tick, isn't easily diffused. so in a time when we are excited to see fellow grad students finishing their theses and our undergrads preparing to graduate in a few weeks, our thoughts are also focused on out thesis shows beginning in october, just a short five months away.

so here are a few images from just a few of the events that have gone on in the interim of my absence from the blog....